The UpTake: These guys don't just want to disrupt any industry. They want to replace the worldwide web. Even for a veteran disruptor like Paul Graham, that's bold.

There's usually at least one Y Combinator startup that surprises the prestigious accelerator's co-founder, Paul Graham, and at this week's Demo Day it was Floobits.

The company founded by Geoff Greer and Matt Kaniaris has introduced a way for two people to write software at the same time on the same code. But they have a much bigger goal in mind — replacing the Web.

They are starting with helping developers do "pair programming" but believe their technology could eventually make email and other basic functions of the Web obsolete, proclaiming their pitch as the start of end of the Internet as we know it.

"Those guys are kind of quiet hacker types and I was wondering whether they would be able to withstand Demo Day and what kind of presentation they would be able to make," Graham told me when the dust settled on Tuesday. "They are reticent hacker types and they don't like talking. I encouraged them to give people the full breadth of their ambition and they did it."

"It's something insanely ambitious. Replacing the Web? Sheesh!" Graham said. "But I think investors liked them and they were able to get across what they are doing."

There were more than the usual number of software and IT infrastructure startups in the Demo Day batch that pitched on Tuesday.

"There were a lot of people working on APIs," Graham said, referring to code that helps software programs communicate with each other, "That was probably the the biggest trend in ideas. These startups took something that is hairy and nasty to deal with and wrapped a layer of abstraction on top of it."

"These products are not meant to be used directly by consumers. They are meant for businesses," Graham told me.

Cromwell Schubarth is the Senior Technology Reporter at the Silicon Valley Business Journal.

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